Unit 2 Review Civil Rights and Liberties

Civil Liberties

1. Civil Rights v Civil Liberties—definitions

2. Supreme Court tends to uphold laws that limit civil liberties in times of war—

Espionage and Sedition Act, Smith Act

3. Selective Incorporation—Based on due process and equal protection clauses of 14^th

Amendment

4. Selective Incorporation—Know which provisions have not been incorporated

5. Prior Restraint—Justice Blackstone

6. Slander v Libel

7. Actual Malice

8. Justice Stewart’s view on obscenity

9. 1973 Supreme Court definition of obscenity

10. Symbolic Speech

11. McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Law

12. Freedom of Religion Clauses—Free Exercise and Establishment

13. Conscientious Objection to Military Service

14. 1947 Court Case involving busing=Busing is neutral

15. Current Regulation of State Aid to Schools—What is allowed and disallowed

16. Cleveland, Ohio—School Vouchers

17. Exclusionary Rule

18. Two ways police can legally search a person—search warrant, arrest

19. Know what police can legally search during an arrest—Chimel v Cal.

20. Miranda Rights

21. Good Faith Exemption, Public Safety Exemption, Inevitable Discovery Exemption

22. Patriot Act

Civil Rights

1. Civil Rights movement needed support from whites and shifting their attention to the

courts in order to gain momentum

2. Civil Rights—Equal Protection Clause, 14^th Amendment

3. Federal District Courts—oversee school integration

4. de facto v de jure segregation

5. Intent to Discriminate

6. Martin Luther King Jr.—Methods of civil disobedience

7. Congressional Opponents to Civil Rights

8. Bull Connor—Birmingham, AL

9. Civil Rights Acts and Voting Rights Acts

10. Racial Profiling

11.Congressional actions promoting civil rights for woman

12. Reasonableness Standard

13. Strict Scrutiny

14. Sexual Harassment

15. Right to Privacy

16. Affirmative Action

17. Rights of Aliens p. 146

18. Americans with Disabilities Act

Supreme Court Cases

1. Schenck v U.S.

2. Texas v Johnson

3. Sheppard Case—free speech vs right to a fair trial

4. Skokie, IL case—Nazi parade in Jewish community

5. Hazelwood School District v Kuhlmeier

6. Lemon v Kurtzman

7. Engel v Vitale

8. Mapp v Ohio

9. Gideon v Wainwright

10. Miranda v Arizona

11. Plessy v Ferguson

12. Sweatt v Painter

13. Brown v The Board of Education

14. Swann v Charlotte-Mecklenburg

15. Rostker v Goldberg

16. Roe v Wade

17. Regents of the University of Cal. v Bakke

18. University of Michigan Law School case

19. Bowers v Hardwick

20. Boy Scouts of America v Dale